WILLIAM CHILDS BREWER, died Jan. 24th, 1862, aged 7 years, and GEORGE
CLEVELAND BREWER, aged 5 years, at Springfield, Mass., Feb. 4th,
1862.
The noble boy amid his sports
Droop’d like a smitten flower
That feels the frost-king’s fatal shaft,
And withers in its bower.
But then a younger darling sank
In childhood’s rosy bloom,
And those whose hearts were one from birth,
Were brothers in the tomb.
_Not in the tomb_. Ah no! They rose
Through Christ their Saviour’s love,
In his blest presence to cement
Their deathless bond of love.
Are they not dwelling side by side?
Have they not ‘scaped the strife,
The snares, the sins, the woes that stain
This pilgrimage of life?
Oh heart of sorrowing Love, be strong!
Tho’ tenderest ties are riven,
For do not earth’s bereavments aid
The angel-chant of Heaven.
(Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney)
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